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Thread #99598   Message #1988165
Posted By: Little Hawk
06-Mar-07 - 10:26 AM
Thread Name: BS: Conspiracy: Thread for those who want it
Subject: RE: BS: Conspiracy: Thread for those who want it
6 - How do you define the word "conspiracy"? I define it as a secret plot by 2 or more people to do something.

Every theory about 911, including the government's chosen version of events describes a secret plot by 2 or more people to attack the WTC, the Pentagon, and possibly some other target (the White House?).

Those are conspiracy theories.

It's a common ridiculing tactic in conversation these days to label someone else's theory as "a conspiracy theory", as if that in itself means that someone is a wingnut. Well, my friend, ALL the theories about 911 are conspiracy theories because they are theories about a conspiracy.

And that's why I'm drawing your attention to the nonsense of someone trying to discredit some theory about 911 by calling it a "conspiracy theory". It's manipulative rhetoric, calculated to sway minds, and it's BS. Sort of like calling any criticism of something done by any black person "racism" (no matter what he did...)....or criticism of something any woman did "sexism"...or criticism of anything Israel did "anti-semitism"...or criticism of anything any Native American did "racism".

You follow me? This use of the term "conspiracy theory" to attack people is illegitimate. It's Newspeak, intended to shut up people who are outside the official line. Every theory about 911 is a conspiracy theory, must be a conspiracy theory, because 911 was accomplished BY a conspiracy on the part of some group of people.

A theory only ceases to be a "theory" when it is fully proven to everyone's satisfaction. Until then, it remains a theory.

Ron - I am simply saying that I have neither the time nor the motivation to search out all kinds of alternative stuff for you to read about 911, because I don't really see any big payoff in doing so. What difference would it make? Would it be an incredible triumph my ego could bask in for the next 10 years if you changed your mind? (heh! I don't think so.) You're just one person, after all, and if I did persuade you....then what? I accept that there are people who don't believe what I believe. It doesn't make them "wrong" or "evil", it just makes them different, that's all. And life will always be like that.